Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1901 — STEAL IN ARMY IS CHARGED. [ARTICLE]

STEAL IN ARMY IS CHARGED.

Valtad State* OMetaU Find Bi* T**»— in Luxon. A gigantic swindle by which, it is charged, the government of the United States has been robbed of military stores valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars has been unearthed in Manila, and the disclosures thus far made indicate that the extent of the frauds has been more far reaching than any which have been perpetrated against the government in recent years. Only the barest facts concerning the swindles have thus far been learned, but these are sufficient it is claimed, to show that a systematic robbery of the government has been going on for some time. A score of United States military officers and civilians prominent in the business life of Manila and southern Luzon are already under arrest and there is strong ground for the belief that many more arrests are in prospect. Captain Federick J. Barrows of the Thirteenth Volunteer infantry, which was recruited at Fort Sheridan, 111., for service in the Philippines, is among those under arrest, and it is charged that he is one of the chief conspirators in the plot to loot the government. Barrows entered the service with the Thirtieth regiment as first lieutenant of Company E but that was not his first military j experience. He had previously served two years in the United States navy i and had also held a commission as i captain in the Fifteenth Minnesota | regiment of volunteers.